Evan Kleekamp reviews Leave Your Body Behind

8. Quoting fromLeave Your Body Behindis also incredibly and essentially difficult. (To repeat, simply and exactly that.) The book’s sentences don’t really end with the appearance of a period. More often than not periods mark a pause in the same manner deployed and evoked by Stein, meaning sentences go on and on to form larger images, sensations, concepts, and gestures, which may themselves be false, temporary, or contain some hidden truth beyond the sense of the reader.